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Present: Host, Peggy Jarrett, Gallagher Law Library/UW; Vice President Marilyn Von Seggern, Washington State University; Robin Clausen, Tacoma Public Library; Sandy Dyer, Washington State Law Library; Linda Fredericks, King County Library System; Cass Hartnett, UW Libraries; Herrick Heitman, Washington State Library; Rob Lopresti, Western Washington University; Bob Menanteanx, Seattle University Law Library; Lori Ricigliano, University of Puget Sound; Judy Solomon, Seattle Public Library; and Sue Anderson, Eastern Washington University.

Law Library Tour
Peggy and Mary gave a tour of the Gallagher Law Library.

Program:

Presenter: Cheryl Nyberg, Reference Librarian
Topic: Google and Beyond: Advance Searching

Google advanced features; 12 file formats, Google desktop, and customized alerts. Meta search engines such as Clusty.com; kartoo.com and surfwax.

Tools for finding “lost” information at Internet Archive at the Wayback Machine, moving images, audio, texts, and web collections. Invisible web to find what can’t be retrieved through a general web search; look at the subject based directories at Invisible-Web.net to find public records, visit agencies and search the internet source; invisible web portals at Profusion.com and SearchSystems.net These are all on the Gallagher Law Library’s website under Internet Legal Resources. Keep up to date with search engine watch, search engine showdown or researchbuzz.com.

Presenter: Mary Whisner, Assistant Librarian, Reference Services
Topic: Judicial and Administrative Decisions on the Internet

• Mary talked about looking for decisions, non-decisions, trial court decisions and orders from administrative agencies, judicial review and selected sources.
• Decisions - Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeals
• Non decisions - newspapers, jury verdicts, settlements, pending litigation, and websites (look for parties involved, advocacy groups and court tv.com)
• Trial court decisions and orders - news sources, court website, i.e., King County Superior Court for bench trial decisions, or information about legal issues
• Administrative agencies - quasi legislative functions: legislative or quasi judicial functions: decisions
• Judicial review - agency decisions reviewed by courts; statute indicates where the review is
• Selected sources - look at the UW Law Library web site under Internet Legal Resource for briefs and opinions, courts, and Find Law. Lexis has a case law site with free login and free information on cases, and the last 5 years of state cases and all U. S. Supreme Court cases.

Business Meeting and FDLP Update

ked Peggy for the programs and library tour. Attendees introduced themselves and talked about their libraries. Several attendees to the FDLP conference mentioned that new FDLP staff arranged this conference; it was not very well organized; sessions were great, content was good; there were large issues going on in different sessions which needed a wrap-up session and there was none.

• FDLP Review - Herrick Heitman
  GPO has a new ILS which should be available by March 2005; collections of last resort in the East and West; dark archives with no public access and light archives used for digitization; GPO needs cohesive chunks of collections for legacy collections. Charlie Seavey talked about the “old” depositories (1200 depository libraries) and the “new” (everyone else in the world) now that so many government documents are on the web. Government documents librarians are trained to use the old depositories, who’s training the new? Public libraries are 20% of the FDLP and they are the main information source for the general public.
• WLA Follow up - Cass Hartnett
  Two of the three librarians who were slated to present at the WLA/PNLA program in August in Wenatchee were unable to because of health concerns. Cass and Bruce Godfrey of the University of Idaho presented the program. We missed the date for program proposals for WLA 2005. Marilyn will ask Carlos to spearhead a plan for the WLA 2006 program in Tacoma. Linda Fredericks presented a program on marketing your library and community planning, which she could present at WLA 2006 .
• State Plan - Herrick Heitman
  Cass, Carlos, Robin and Herrick will work on the revision with a report due at the spring meeting.
• Treasurer’s Report - Judy Solomon
  
  

  Beginning Balance	$748.55	February 19, 2004
  Income (dues)	$140.00
  Expenses	$65.00
  Ending Balance	$823.55	October 31, 2004

  Judy asked if she needed to update the membership roster. This led to a discussion of NGIN, the depos discussion list, the relation (or not) between the two and if there is a need for an NGIN list. We decided we should have an NGIN discussion list and Marilyn will ask Carlos to set it up.

  Judy moved to offer $25 to libraries to cover costs of food at our meetings and to pay for speakers’ lunches by giving $10 to speakers or have someone else pay for their lunches and be reimbursed. The motion was seconded and carried.

  Election of Officers - Marilyn Von Seggern
  

  Cass nominated Herrick as President-Elect. The motion was seconded and carried. Herrick’s term will begin after today’s meeting. In order to align the election process with the By-laws, he will become President after the spring meeting. We will also elect other new officers in the spring.

  GODORT Nomination
  

  Cass wants to nominate Sue Selmer, a long time government documents librarian at Everett Public Library, for the Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award. Cass will get the nomination material together and asked people who knew Sue to send testimonials about Sue and her work to Cass to include in this material. Herrick will contact Arlene Weible and look through past inspection reports to find material to add. > Herrick will continue to conduct site visits to the state depository libraries.

  Next meeting
  

  Herrick will plan the program for our spring 2005 meeting. Tentative date is May 2, 2005; tentative choices are Central Washington University, Gonzaga University Law Library, or Whitworth College.

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